Islamic Studies: Sociology

This Research Guides provides access to resources at Marquette Libraries and on the Internet about the Islam and the Mideast.

Introduction

This page introduces you to books in our library about the sociological study of Islam, providing samples of different kinds of publications. If any one book is particularly useful, check the Subject categories in the bibliographic record, and then click on a Subject category to get similar titles.

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The SAGE Handbook of Islamic Studies by Tamara Sonn (Editor); Akbar S. Ahmed (Editor)
Call Number: BP42 .S24 2010 Memorial Level 1
Publication Date: 2010
In print only. Click on title for bibliographic record.
Women in Islam and the Middle East by Ruth Roded (Editor)
Call Number: HQ1170 .W578 1999 Memorial Level 4 Upper
Publication Date: 1999
In print only. Click on title for bibliographic record.
A Companion to the Muslim World by Amyn B. Sajoo (Editor)
Call Number: BP161.3 .C65 2009 Memorial Level 1
Publication Date: 2009-08-15
In print and online. Click on title for bibliographic record and access to e-version.
The Middle East : a guide to politics, economics, society, and culture by Barry Rubin (Editor)
Publication Date: 2011
E-book only. Click on title for bibliographical entry and access to e-version..

Encyclopedias and Dictionaries

Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World by Richard C. Martin (Editor)
Call Number: BP40 .E525 2004 Raynor Reference
Publication Date: 2004
In print and online. Click on title for bibliographic record and access to e-version.
Encyclopedia of Islam in the United States by Jocelyne Cesari, editor
Call Number: BP67.U6 E53 2007 Raynor Reference
Publication Date: 2007
In print only. Click title for bibliographic record.
Encyclopedia of women and Islamic cultures by Suad Joseph (Editor)
Call Number: BP173.4 .E538 2003 Memorial Level 1
Publication Date: 2003
In print only. Click on title for bibliographic record.
The Oxford Dictionary of Islam by John L. Esposito (Editor)
Call Number: BP40 .O95 2003 Raynor Reference
Publication Date: 2003
In print and online. Click on title for bibliographic record and access to e-version.
Islamic desk reference [electronic resource] by Compiled from The encyclopedia of Islam by E. van Donzel
Publication Date: 1994
E-book only. Click on title for the bibliographic entry and access to e-version.
Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa by Philip Mattar
Publication Date: 2004
In print and online. Click on title for bibliographic record and access to e-version.

Specialized Scholarly Studies

Islamicate Societies: a case study of Egypt and Muslim India : modernization, colonial rule, and the aftermath by Husain Kassim
Call Number: HN786.A8 K37 2012 Memorial Level 4 Upper
Publication Date: 2012
In print only. Click on title for bibliographic record.
Homeland Insecurity : the Arab American and Muslim American experience after 9/11 by Louise Cainkar
Call Number: E184.A65 C35 2009 Memorial Level 2
Publication Date: 2009
In print only. Click on title for bibliographic record.
No God but God : Egypt and the triumph of Islam by Geneive Abdo
Call Number: BP64.E3 A25 2000 Memorial Level 1
Publication Date: 2000
In print only. Click on title for bibliographic entry.
Pure and Powerful : studies in contemporary Muslim society by Nadia Abu-Zahra
Call Number: BP174 .A28 1997 Memorial Level 1
Publication Date: 1997
In print only. Click on title for bibliographic record.
Islam and the Search for Social Order in Modern Egypt by Charles D. Smith
Call Number: BP80.H39 S67 Memorial Level 1
Publication Date: 1984-06-30
In print and online. Click on title for bibliographic record and access to e-version.
Transnational Muslims in American Society by Aminah Beverly McCloud
Call Number: E184.M88 M38 2006 Memorial Level 2
Publication Date: 2006
In print and online. Click on title for bibliographic record and access to e-version.